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      A House in the Country

      Submitted by TE Editor on 29 March, 2004 - 13:00

      Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka, and has been living and writing in London since the 1970s. His writing is frequently elegiac and wistful, casting reflective eyes at 'the spoiled paradise' of his original home.

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